The UK government will on Monday announce new measures to ban elite Kremlin-linked officials and oligarchs from entering Britain, in a show of solidarity with Kyiv on the third anniversary of the Ukraine war.
Ministers will expand the criteria for exclusions to the UK to include anyone who provides significant support to, or enjoys access at the highest levels of, the Russian government, the Home Office said.
Individuals who owe their significant status or wealth to the Russian state will also be covered by the move, it added, amid growing concern about Kremlin-connected figures who denounce British values in public while enjoying the benefits of the UK in private.